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UPS Expands International Express Services to New Markets

Airfreight Logistics

UPS recently announced an expansion across 40 countries of their UPS Worldwide Express and UPS Express Plus, which is part of the UPS international suite of shipping services that guarantees time- and day-definite delivery for urgent shipments.

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LastMile Dialogues: Maximizing unit economics to unlock last mile efficiencies

Locus

The growth in the manufacturing sector is expected to boost the demand for express delivery and logistics services. Download the Definitive CEP Playbook to establish right to win Download the Ebook Now! A major reason for this growth in Indonesia is the continued popularity of e-commerce. billion in 2021.

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Jack Ma predicts the future of logistics

The Logistics Academy

But at the Global Smart Logistics Summit on 13 Jun 2016, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said that the real advances in China have been in logistics, not ecommerce. You can talk about the miracle of ecommerce in China or in the world,” he said, “but the logistics industry is where China’s real great miracle has been over the past decade.”. “You

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The End of the E-Commerce Hype Is Bad News for Planes

ShipLilly

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a definite shift toward online shopping. Even the more traditional actors in the logistics industry were taken in. After all, they would be one of the key modalities for quickly transporting goods from different parts of the globe. Counting the cost of a trend that never really took off.

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Top Challenges in Enabling Same-Day Prescription Delivery

Locus

This led them to reach out to numerous pharmacy businesses offering same-day delivery. With the recent developments in e-commerce and logistics technologies, people, from the comfort of their homes, can get their prescriptions delivered the same day and reduce the risk of contagion. Challenge No 2: Weaknesses in logistics coordination.

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Examining the Effects of Online Shopping on Last-Mile Freight

247 Customs Broker

Conway will present with University of Gothenburg’s Michael Brown during the April 18th live webinar, during which she will walk us through her research on urban freight and sustainable urban logistics. There are multiple things that need to change to address urban freight logistics. How do we begin to address this issue?

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